New government figures show that the unemployment rate in August was highest in Nevada, lowest in Nebraska, and falling month-over-month in all states except Kentucky and Rhode Island, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said in a report Friday.
On the whole, the jobless rate tended to be above the national average of 8.4 percent in states in the Northeast and West, while jobless rates were generally lower in the Midwest and South—regions in which some states saw a recent uptick in COVID-19 cases.
